Originally featured in Outer Edge magazine. On a beautiful autumn weekend earlier this year, Brendan Davies ran 100-kilometres through Australia’s Blue Mountains faster than anyone had done before. Outer Edge caught up with the Australian trail running marvel to discover how he, a humble teacher and relative newcomer to the sport, developed the weaponry to run faster than Kilian Jornet, the poster boy of world ultra-trail running. Of all extraordinary feats achieved in sport, nothing provokes incredulity quite like the efforts …
Category: Land adventure
Originally featured in Outer Edge magazine. The Blue Mountains, like many world famous wilderness tourist attractions, are extensively criss-crossed with walkways and viewing platforms. Despite this, local trail runner Beth Cardelli has little time for sightseeing. “The views and all that are often spectacular,” Beth says, “but the course directors who design the races want to make you work for it; they want you to feel pain a little bit as well,” she explains cheerily when asked about running while …
Originally featured in Outer Edge magazine. In a way, the ultra-distance trail runner is a mongrel breed of athlete. A Frankenstein’s monster combination of runner, trekker, wilderness lover and cardiovascular freak all stitched into one unearthly continent-striding phenomenon. Mike Le Roux’s story begins with multi-sport legend Brad ‘The Croc’ Bevan’s nickname. Locals began calling Brad after Australia’s favourite man-eating reptile because of his apparent fondness for regularly training in the crocodile-infested Johnstone River, just beyond the southern border of Cairns …